For this is why I sought the Church: I wanted to know what needed to be defined, and what I was free to leave to…
CHAPTER XXX. Further Counsels as to Conversation. LET your words be kindly, frank, sincere, straightforward, simple and true; avoid all artifice, duplicity and pretence, remembering…
CHAPTER XXIX. On Slander. FROM rash judgments proceed mistrust, contempt for others, pride, and self-sufficiency, and numberless other pernicious results, among which stands forth prominently…
CHAPTER XXVIII. Of Hasty Judgments. JUDGE not, and ye shall not be judged,” said the Saviour of our souls; “condemn not, and ye shall not…
CHAPTER VII. How to combine due care for a Good Reputation with Humility. PRAISE, honour, and glory are not bestowed on men for ordinary, but…
CHAPTER VI. Humility makes us rejoice in our own Abjection. BUT, my daughter, I am going a step further, and I bid you everywhere and…
I’ve done the unthinkable the last few months, I have attempted to remove my private experience of God, or what I think is God and…
CHAPTER III. On Patience. “YE have need of patience, that, after ye have done the Will of God, ye might receive the promise,” says Saint…
Things are simply what they are. I am a subject given the faculty of reason and person-hood. I may have a difficult time with self knowledge,…
CHAPTER XV. Of the other Public Offices of the Church. FURTHERMORE, my daughter, you should endeavour to assist at the Offices, Hours, Vespers, etc., as…
